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Building a Digital Portfolio
RRCHNM & The Getty Foundation
Building a Digital Portfolio
DH for Art History Graduate Students
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Table Of Contents
About ............................................................... 3
Institute Team ........................................................ 4
July 13: Introductions ................................................... 5
July 14: Surveying Major Digital Art Collections ................................ 7
July 15: Building Digital Collections ......................................... 9
July 16: Modeling and Models ............................................ 11
July 17: Data and Text Analysis ........................................... 13
July 20: Visualizations and Networks ....................................... 15
July 21: Mapping and Spatial History ....................................... 17
July 22: Shared Authority and GLAMs ...................................... 19
July 23: Project Planning & Grant Proposals .................................. 21
July 24: Scholarly Communication, Professionalization, Publications ................. 23
Glossary ............................................................ 24
Bibliography ......................................................... 28
Digital Art History Web ................................................. 41
Art History Collections, Highlights ......................................... 43
Multimedia Sources .................................................... 45
SketchUp Tutorial ..................................................... 46
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About
Building a Digital Portfolio was a digital humanities summer institute for 20 art history graduate students
offered by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, at George Mason University with
support from the Getty Foundation held July 13-24, 2015. The goal of the institute was to introduce
digital art history to graduate students in MA and PhD programs by training them in digital humanities
methods and tools.
During the summer of 2014, RRCHNM ran an institute, also sponsored by the Getty, for established
faculty, librarians, archivists, and museum curators. Learn more about their experiences on Rebuilding
the Portfolio: DH for Art Historians.
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Institute Team
RRCHNM
Sheila A. Brennan
Co-Director, Building a Digital Portfolio; Associate Director of Public Projects; Associate Research
Professor, Department of History and Art History
Gretchen Burgess
Mentor, Graduate Research Assistant
Michele Greet
Associate Professor, Department of History and Art History
Jannelle Legg
Mentor, Graduate Research Assistant
Sharon M. Leon
Co-Director, Building a Digital Portfolio; Director of Public Projects; Associate Professor, Department of
History and Art History
Jeny Martinez
Office Manager
Lincoln Mullen
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Art History
Megan Ober
Office Manager
Lisa M. Rhody
Associate Director of Research; Assistant Research Professor, Department of History and Art History
Spencer Roberts
Mentor, Graduate Research Assistant
Stephanie Westcott
Director, PressForward; Assistant Research Professor, Department of History and Art History
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July 13: Introductions
Readings
How the Internet Works in Five Minutes, 2009, https://youtu.be/7_LPdttKXPc
Introduction and Part I, in Debates in the Digital Humanities, Matthew K. Gold, ed., Open Access
Edition (2013), http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/
Matthew Long and Roger C. Schonfeld, “Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Art
Historians,” Research Support Services Program (Ithaka S+R, April 30, 2014),
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/supporting-changing-research-practices-art-
historians?
Jules David Prown, “The Art Historian and the Computer,” in Art as Evidence: Writings on Art
and Material Culture (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), 36–51. View PDF
Activities
Morning
Opening comments and introductions
Introduction to the Digital Humanities Community and the Digital Art History web.
Overview of disciplinary approaches using "threshold concepts" (Meyer and Land):
tranformative
troublesome
irreversible
integrative
bounded
discursive
reconstitutive
liminality
Afternoon
Building a professional identity online.
Introduction to digital communication platforms
Hands-on Session: Sign up for/working with Twitter. #doingdah15
Hands-on Session: Sign up for Reclaim web hosting and install WordPress.
Project Planning: Sharing of Project Ideas
Tools
Twitter
ReClaim Hosting
WordPress, and WordPress Documentation for Administration Panels
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Sites
Grad Hacker blog
Academia.edu
Medium
LinkedIn
Extra Material
Additional readings and material are not required, but recommended. They are accessible through a
Zotero Group Library. If you already use Zotero, click here to see the group and apply for membership.
Even if you don't use Zotero, a link to the extra material is included at the bottom of each day's schedule
page: Zotero Folder - Day 1 - Introductions - Extra Material
Next Day
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July 14: Surveying Major Digital Art Collections
Readings
Roy Rosenzweig, “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,” The American
Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2003): 735–762. http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-
media/essays/?essayid=6
Tim Sherratt, “It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People,” Journal of
Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (March 9, 2012), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/its-all-
about-the-stuff-by-tim-sherratt/
John Resig, “Using Computer Vision to Increase the Research Potential of Photo Archives,” John
Resig, 2013, http://ejohn.org/research/computer-vision-photo-archives/
Activities
Morning
Please share the location of your new blog with us
Discuss Readings
Digital Methods: Search, discovery, and storage, metadata
How does the Internet work; using Google Foo
Research and file management
Guest: Jenna Rinalducci, Art Librarian, Fenwick Library, George Mason University
Hands-on Session: Metadata games, http://play.metadatagames.org/shipstag
Afternoon
Hands-on Session: Install Zotero
Survey major digital art history collections
Hands-on Session: Tin Eye, http://tineye.com/
Hands-on Session: Scavenger Hunt
For Fun: Your Face in History, http://faces.cultureplex.ca/
Homework
Take 15-20 minutes to quickly review (take notes, do not write a review) your assigned site.
Think about:
Applicability: Is it directed at a clear audience? Will it serve the needs of that audience?
Quality: Is the scholarship sound and current? What is the interpretation or point of view?
Accessibility: Is there a fee for use? is specific software required?
User Experience: Easy to navigate? Does it function effectively? Does it have a clear,
effective, and original design?
Use of New Media: Does it make effective use of new media and new technology? Does it
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do something that could not be done in other media—print, exhibition, film?
(from Art Libraries Society of North America review guidelines:
http://arlisna.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=303:for-
reviewers&catid=38:multimedia-technology-reviews&Itemid=146)
Site Assignments
Art Detective: http://www.thepcf.org.uk/artdetective/ (Drago, Butcosk)
Art Stories, Minneapolis Institute of Art: http://artstories.artsmia.org (Clements, Converse)
Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh Letters: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters.html (Cook)
National Gallery of Art, Dutch Paintings of the 19th Century:
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/online-editions/17th-century-dutch-paintings.html/
(Farrell Rivello)
Walker Art Center: http://www.walkerart.org/ (Gilodi, Greenlee)
Visualizing Schneemann: http://historyinthecity.blogspot.com/2013/11/before-i-start-i-want-to-
thank-people.html (Hager, Harris)
Louis Prang and Chromolithography: http://americanantiquarian.org/prang/ (Kalkstein)
MOMA iPhone app: http://www.moma.org/explore/mobile/iphoneapp (Kilgarriff, Trucks)
Timelines of Dutch History: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore-the-collection/timeline-dutch-
history (Lin)
VanGoYourself: http://vangoyourself.com/ (Mirza, Kive)
Vermeer and Technique: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/meaning-of-
making/vermeer-and-technique/ (Rice, Riesenberger)
Pietro Mellini’s Inventory in Verse, 1681: http://www.getty.edu/research/mellini/ (Stein, Thomas)
Sites
Your Face in History: http://faces.cultureplex.ca/
Tools
Zotero: http://zotero.org
Tin Eye: http://tineye.com
Extra Material
Zotero Folder - Day 2 - Surveying Major Digital Art Collections - Extra Material
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July 15: Building Digital Collections
Readings
Erin Kissane, The Elements of Content Strategy (New York: A Book Apart, 2011).
Mitchell Whitelaw, “Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections,” Digital Humanities
Quarterly 9, no. 1 (2015), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/1/000205/000205.html
Cooper Hewitt Labs, “Object Concordances – What Is the Simplest Thing to Match Like with
Like?,” Cooper Hewitt Labs Blog, May 29, 2015, http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2015/object-
concordances/
College Art Association, “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use in the Visual Arts” (College Art
Association, February 2015), http://www.collegeart.org/fair-use/best-practices
Activities
Morning
Discussion of readings
Digital Methods: Conceptualizing effective digital projects and considering how software
structure shapes arguments.
Hands-on Session: Small group discussion of the sites reviewed
Hands-on Session: Crit Room Appraisal of digital art history projects
Afternoon
Hands-on Session: Install Omeka
Hands-on Session: Building digital narratives with Omeka exhibit builder
Hands-on Session: Building digital narratives with Scalar
Homework
Please take a few minutes to fill out a midweek survey: http://arthistory2015.doingdh.org/midterm-
survey-1/
Sites & Tools
Omeka: http://omeka.org
Omeka user guide: http://omeka.org/codex/Documentation
Scalar: http://scalar.usc.edu/
Scalar user guide: http://scalar.usc.edu/scalar/
Scalar Tutorial: What is Scalar?
Guglemann Collection, 3D Browser: http://www.mathiasbernhard.ch/gugelmann/
Adding Plugins with the Omeka Plugins Guide
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Extra Material
Zotero Folder - Day 3 - Building Digital Collections - Extra Material
Previous Day | Next Day
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